Galeria Casa Aires in Velez de Benaudallaz: Special Opening and Exhibition- April 23, 17:00-19:00
On Galeria Casa Aires in Velez de Benaudalla invites you to visit the artist studio of C. Rome Beatty and an exhibit of 3 visiting local artists and meet the artists and share a glass of wine and tapas. The Galeria is not a regular gallery, but this is a special event to introduce you to local artists and learn about their processes and work. The art work is diverse,ranging from lovely village scenes and landscapes to figurative to non-objective abstract.
Schedule and Address
April 23, 17:00-19:00.
Self drive.
Calle Miguel Rios, 8 Vélez de Benaudalla
Thomas Michael Jandke
Born on February 8, 1953 in Hengersberg Lower Bavaria, Thomas studied cello and violin at the Niederalteich Music Gymnasium (high school), before going on to an advanced technical college entrance qualification in Engineering, and studying at the Academy for Social Pedagogy.
An inveterate explorer all his life, in his youth he backpacked to: USA, Central America, South America, Turkey, Greece, Spain, Iraq, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Thailand… spending many years on the road. During these travels, he spent several years working with children as an educator and director of a creative Montessori children’s workshop, and teaching art at an adult education center in Germany. As an artist, Thomas is self taught and has been a freelance artist for commercial art and design, while painting his own subjects. His subject matter changes and style evolves influenced by his travels and living in various countries until he settled in Velez de Benaudalla. His style is based in realism with a twist of a taste of surrealism. He continues to exhibit in his homeland in several galleries in Kunstverein Deggendorf.
Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez
Antonio is a native of Vélez de Benaudalla, born in 1961. Painting since he was very young, he started by drawing and working with oils. The local priest saw his drawings and convinced his parents to let him take drawing and painting classes, marking his first steps in art. Painting until he was 16-17, he stopped for almost 20 years, until taking up painting at the age of 37 at the encouragement and support of his wife. Since then, he hasn’t stopped painting. His first exhibit was during the inauguration of the Nasrid Garden in Velez , and he’s participated in several plein air painting competitions in towns like Villanueva de Córdoba, Velez de Benaudalla, and Villaviciosa, winning some first prizes. Painting with oil, acrylic, and watercolor, he enjoys all three techniques, but oil is the one he feels most comfortable with and expresses himself best with inspiration of local village scenes, landscapes, jardins, and even portraits of local residents. His paintings show a beautiful use of natural light an rich color use. Landscape is the genre that he enjoys most because it gives him great creative freedom. HIs goal is to evolve from landscape towards abstraction, using nature as a starting point to explore new forms of artistic expression.
Gym Halama
Gym was born in London to an English father and a Polish mother. She completed her primary and secondary education at the Lycée Fraxnçais. Since moving to the province of Granada, Spain, in 1995, Gym Halama has applying her considerable skills as a special effects artist in theatre and film, ballet stages, and interior muralist to painting and drawing creating a body of work that spans a wide range of subjects. “Through my career as a special effects painter in film, I’ve become fascinated by the
process of decay and decay and the development of texture and color in materials found in nature. In my work I try to focus on the unattainable, on a feeling or a moment in time where emotion vies with consciousness. The process is never-ending and the result always elusive but beckons me to the next canvas. I’m fascinated by the human spirit in its many manifestations. In my work, I try to focus on the unattainable, and the result, always elusive, compels me to move on to the next canvas.”
Cheryle Rome Beatty
Born in south Texas, Cheryle studied fine art and education, before settling into a 35 year career in interior architecture and design in Chicago and Philadelphia. Towards the end of this career, Cheryle renewed her interest in fine art and painting working primarily in abstract soft pastel. Upon retiring to southern Andalucia in Spain in 2018 with her husband, Cheryle’s work evolved into oil and acrylic painting on paper and linen as her primary working media, where her core work has been influenced by her adopted home´s landscape, culture and music, both thematically and symbolically. Over her design and painting career, Cheryle developed a vocabulary of “non-repetitive repetition” in which linear elements in repetitious variations of thick and thin, combined with irregular spacing create rhythm and pulsating pattern, hinting at her interest in primitive African art and architectural background. Her work is constantly evolving, working in series and exploring thematically the compositional elements that characterize her work.
